Top: Birth of Dionysus Below: Triumph of Dionysus ἢ ὥσπερ Σαπφώ, ὅτι τὸ ἀποθνῄσκειν κακόν· οἱ θεοὶ γὰρ οὕτω κεκρίκασιν· ἀπέ...

προαιρεῖσθαί τε δεῖ ἀδύνατα εἰκότα μᾶλλον ἢ δυνατὰ ἀπίθανα What is convincing though impossible should always be preferred to what is p...

The arc of the Paradiso has been a movement from the particular to the universal, moving towards the primo amore -- the source of all Being...

Mankind is engaged in a continual conversation with tradition - Hans-Georg Gadamer. Part of the work of the Commedia lies in its inte...

What madnesse is it (quoth she) to prefer the heavenly rout   Of whome ye doe but heare, to such as daily are in sight?   Or why should...

(One paragraph was revised on 10.1.17, as noted) Paradiso 29:1-12 Quando ambedue li figli di Latona, coperti del Montone e de la Libr...

. . . out of Norse mythology and archaic names (Danish: solhunde (sun dog), Norwegian: solhund (sun dog), Swedish: solvarg (sun wolf))...

Right at the beginning of  On The Trinity   Augustine sets forth a theory of the mode of the Bible. It is made for little people, even chi...

After the leap of  Paradiso 23,  Dante face a quiz. The one asking the questions is none other than Peter -- the first man to put faith in...

“Tu se' sì presso a l'ultima salute,” cominciò Bëatrice, “che tu dei aver le luci tue chiare e acute;  e però, prima che tu più ...